Mental
(& emotional) illness awareness
month,
as if more awareness might could
reduce
depression, mania, fear, anxiety,
panic,
night sweats, binging, purging,
hoarding, cutting and all varieties of
neurotic
experience. Drugs and alcohol
and
self- medicating: momentary solutions,
no
doubt.
Platitudes
and bromides and bible verses.
Confucius-sayings
and Buddha admonitions,
yoga
and self-help advice, smelling coffee
in
the morning, puppies to pet, being aware
of
starving children in Africa, hordes of
immigrants,
highway shootings, church
burnings,
Trump pontificating, Bernie
expostulating—putting
my angst in global
perspective.—none of these make me more
grateful
or improve my daze. Shame on me.
A gap between
what I know and what I feel
&
no bridge or pontoons make no never
mind.
Prayer-
from Latin precari : precarious
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